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Cognition
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Cognitive psychology continues to be a multi-disciplinary field with theoretical and research foci that overlap with virtually every aspect of psychology. In addition, over the past several decades discoveries in neuropsychology and neuroscience have had major impact upon the cognitive psychology, now often incorporated into cognitive neuroscience. Cognition, First Edition incorporates current directions in neuroscience into a modern cognitive psychology textbook without losing the fundamental content of cognitive psychology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- Chapter 2: From Sensation to Perception
- Chapter 3: Attention in a Noisy World
- Chapter 4: The Modal Model of Memory
- Chapter 5: Working Memory and the Central Executive
- Chapter 6: Making Memories
- Chapter 7: Retrieval and Memory Distortion
- Chapter 8: Variations of Long-Term Memory
- Chapter 9: Categorization and Meaning
- Chapter 10: Consciousness
- Chapter 11: The Description and Overview of Language
- Chapter 12: Fundamental Issues in Language Theory
- Chapter 13: Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 14: Problem Solving and Reasoning
- Appendix A: Neurons
- Appendix B: Geography of the Brain
- Appendix C: Imaging the Brain
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
